06.04.1917 – 25.05.2011

Her fate is no less surreal than her paintings: an Englishwoman from an aristocratic family, a rebel who rejected high values ​​and escaped with one of the leaders of the avant-garde movement to Paris, and subsequently a well-known Mexican artist, where her work is recognized as a national treasure.

A hundred years ago on April 6, 1917, Lenora Carrington was born. The obstinate girl was replaced by more than one educational institution, and everywhere she was given unflattering characteristics – “an unbearable and incorrigible child.” The only thing she liked was art. The Carringtons were not connoisseurs of painting, but under the pressure of their daughter could not resist – Lenora went to study in Florence, and then in London, the Academy of Arts of Chelsea.

In 1936, the capital of England hosted an exhibition of surrealists, where there were also paintings by Max Ernst, the leader of French avant-garde artists. Lenora Carrington was delighted with his work. A year later they met at a party. Lenore was 20 years old, Max Ernst – 46, but neither the difference in age, nor the fact that her chosen wife is married, did not embarrass the daring Englishwoman. “He taught me everything – art, literature. My education is from Max … I was not a surrealist, I lived with Max Ernst, “Carrington said later.

Their happiness ended with the outbreak of World War II. Max Ernst was a German, which was the reason for several arrests. Lenora had a nervous breakdown, because of which she was taken to a psychiatric hospital. There is a legend that the Carringtons, upon learning about the state of their daughter, sent her a nanny for her on a submarine. But, one way or another, Lenora got out of the clinic and moved from the hardships of war-torn Europe to Mexico. This helped her friend Picasso Mexican poet Renato Ludic, thanks to a fictitious marriage with him, the artist was able to obtain a Mexican visa.

The new homeland gave Lenore Carrington a new life. She had friends and like-minded people – photographer Kati Horn, Mexican poet Octavio Paz, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Spanish artist Remedios Varo and her husband, the poet Benjamin Peret. Lenora Carrington married the photographer Emeriko Weiss, with whom she lived for many years and gave birth to two sons.

In her work, Celtic legends in a bizarre way connected with Mexican mysticism and folklore of the Maya Indians.

Lenora Carrington did not become May 25, 2011.

In 2016 in Russia the book of the artist “Auditory tube” was published.